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Borrowed from Maori mauri.

mauri (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Life force, according to Maori beliefs.

    • 2021 January 1, “Local hapū to watch over dangerous Omanawa Falls near Tauranga”, in Stuff NZ‎[2]:

      We're just cuzzies from down at the marae down the road that are trying to be proactive and look after our whenua, look after our stories, and look after the mauri of our awa, our river.

From Proto-Oceanic *maqurip, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ma-qudip, from *qudip, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qudip, from Proto-Austronesian *qudip.

mauri

  1. to live[1]

mauri

  1. inflection of maurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

mauri

  1. genitive singular of maur
  2. partitive singular of maur
  3. illative singular of maur

From German Maure.

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑu̯ri/, [ˈmɑ̝u̯ri]
  • Rhymes: -ɑuri
  • Hyphenation(key): mau‧ri

mauri

  1. (historical) Moor (member of a North African ethnic group)

(compounds):

mauri

  1. hello

maurī

  1. inflection of maurus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular
  • "mauri", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “mauri”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “mauri”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

mauri m

  1. nominative/vocative plural of maurs

From Proto-Polynesian *maquri (compare with Samoan mauli, Tongan moʻui)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *maqurip, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qudip (compare Javanese urip, Iban idup and Malay hidup “to live”).[2][3]

mauri

  1. life
    1. life force or principle; metaphorical soul; source of life

      • 2006, Joanne Barker, Sovereignty Matters, page 208:

        In 1979 a gathering of elder at the Waananga kaumatua affirmed te reo Maori “Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori” the language is the life principle of Maori mana.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. heart, seat of emotions
    Synonyms: ate, manawa, ngākau
  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 237
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “maquri”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 201-2
  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “mauri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 229-30
  • “mauri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Oceanic *mauʀi, variant of *mawiʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)wiʀi, from *wiʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *wiʀi.

mauri

  1. left